@zachsdorfman.bsky.social
National Security Reporter. Features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House. It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Email: thebrushpass1@protonmail.com
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25.11.2025 19:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0President Trump: Please “ask” Kevin Shields to release another My Bloody Valentine record
variety.com/2025/film/bo...
remember when the IC reportedly ran an influence op on Greenland to foment secessionist sentiment from our NATO ally Denmark
25.11.2025 04:38 — 👍 74 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
25.11.2025 04:33 — 👍 3632 🔁 1353 💬 59 📌 41That is EVERYTHING
25.11.2025 01:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Are you trying to kill me friend
25.11.2025 01:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0When I published this @wired.com story in October 2024, I figured that—should Trump prevail the following month—it would maintain its relevance. But I had no inkling *how* relevant.
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
more and more people are saying AI did an amazing job
24.11.2025 18:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The movie ”Her,” but it’s the disembodied consciousness of James Angleton
24.11.2025 18:35 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Ideology twinned with material interests provide plenty of justifications.
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This is a foul development:
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
I first encountered Pollard's case through reading archival letters he wrote to prominent American Jewish figures in which he tried to portray himself as a martyr, and it was very evident from the tone that he was a remarkably mendacious and self-serving person.
20.11.2025 17:05 — 👍 154 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0I believe he also went to the Pakistanis.
20.11.2025 17:10 — 👍 47 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I previously cited Hersh’s (great) book The Samson Option as where this assertion appears, but it was in a later New Yorker article. I regret the error.
20.11.2025 17:09 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Also: according to Hersh in a 1999 New Yorker expose, Israel turned around and passed the info provided by Pollard to the KGB, in order to curry favor with Moscow. In the world of intelligence, there are no friends, only interests.
20.11.2025 17:08 — 👍 33 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0Monster Plot Energy Drink
20.11.2025 01:39 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"Papandreou wins that election if I don't help the Junta take him prisoner! I've advised and armed the Hellenic Army!"
20.11.2025 01:01 — 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0And The Billion Dollar Spy by David Hoffmann
19.11.2025 23:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Executioner’s Song by Mailer!
19.11.2025 23:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I had not realized that Kimberly Guilfoyle had been named US Ambassador to Greece, a place of significant historical importance for CIA activities—and which, as ambassador, she would be briefed about.
19.11.2025 22:24 — 👍 34 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1Rick Perlstein is going to have a hell of a time when he writes his chapter on November 2025
19.11.2025 19:30 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0SF has some killer dive bars as well
19.11.2025 04:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yes!
19.11.2025 02:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Seriously, the movie rules. It follows the training and deployment of two OSS NOCs sent behind enemy lines, the first as a mechanic, the other a fisherman.
18.11.2025 23:14 — 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The OSS made an incredible TRAINING FILM, directed by JOHN FORD, about the dos and donts of nonofficial cover. It’s great!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oJJf...
Honestly i might
18.11.2025 21:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s a mental DDoS already
18.11.2025 18:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0New DDoS technique just dropped.
18.11.2025 18:39 — 👍 42 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0My favorite Destroyer track!
18.11.2025 16:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bill Donovan was seen as too close to the British by many in the American defense/intelligence establishment—some worries they were trying to co-opt him; and he was a serious Anglophile
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